{"id":15224,"date":"2019-02-10T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15224"},"modified":"2019-02-10T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:09:10","slug":"he-says-he-is-buhari-of-zamfara-forests-he-is-dead-but-i-am-alive-buhari-says-as-he-visits-troubled-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15224","title":{"rendered":"He says he is Buhari of Zamfara forests, he is dead but I am alive, Buhari says as he visits troubled state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Release<br \/>\nPRESIDENT BUHARI CHARGES TRADITIONAL RULERS TO DO MORE TO CURB BANDITRY<br \/>\nBy\u00a0<strong>Garba Shehu<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity)<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari in Gusau, Zamfara State has charged traditional rulers do more in curbing banditry and kidnapping in their communities, saying that he felt disappointed that people close to some of them were found to have a hand in such criminality.<br \/>\nSpeaking at a meeting with the royal fathers in the Government House on Sunday, as part of the ongoing campaigns, the President expressed the determination of his administration to defend the country from criminals and insurgents.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are determined to defend the nation and its people. We are disappointed with some of the things going on. You are responsible for the security of your neighbourhood. Being close to your people, you know them. You are still relevant. I am sorry this has extended to some of your families,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nReferring to the deployment of a large number of security personnel to the state, President Buhari said that security is also the business of the traditional rulers, not that of the police and other security agencies alone.<br \/>\n\u201cMore security is not good news, but we must do something to secure our environment,\u201d he noted.<br \/>\nThe President commended the gallantry of the security agencies in battling kidnapping and banditry, saying \u201cyou know what we have achieved. You had one who styled himself as Buharin Daji, the Buhari of the forests, claiming to be in charge and not I at the centre. He is no more, and by my surviving him, you now know who is stronger.\u201d<br \/>\nPresident Buhari said he was contesting this election as his fifth and the last, because as he noted, \u201ca second term is what the constitution allows, and I will not abuse the constitution.\u201d<br \/>\nHe thanked the royal fathers for the support he enjoyed so far and appealed to them to back his re-election.<br \/>\nThe Chairman of the council of traditional rulers and Emir of Anka, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmed and the Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, praised the efforts of the President in changing the unwanted security situation in the state.<br \/>\nAccording to the governor, \u201cFrom the presence of an ammunition depot manned by just 30 men when you took office in 2015, Zamfara State today boasts of the presence of 4,700 combined security personnel who are assisted by 8,500 State Joint Task Force, SJTF members. We also have the 223 Battalion, the 607 Quick Response Battalion and the 1 Brigade in Gusau.\u201d<br \/>\nThe council of traditional rulers also endorsed President Buhari\u2019s bid for a second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release PRESIDENT BUHARI CHARGES TRADITIONAL RULERS TO DO MORE TO CURB BANDITRY By\u00a0Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity) President Muhammadu Buhari in Gusau, Zamfara State has charged traditional rulers do more in curbing banditry and kidnapping in their communities, saying that he felt disappointed that people close to some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}